half-baked: people play at all times the most fun game they know how to play. if you see someone doing something that looks ridiculously unfun to you assume it is because they literally don’t know how to play a more fun game than what they’re playing
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this includes assuming that you might not understand the ways in which the game they’re playing is fun to them
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people play the game of hatred because it’s fun, but they also play it because they don’t know how to play the game of love
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i forgot to spell out the rest of the logic: the implication here is that the way to change other people’s behavior is not by trying to argue them out of it but by visibly having more fun doing something else
may be the grand champion of this
I think I saw a similar poat a little while ago. Wasn't quite framed in terms of fun tho, lemme see if I can dig it up
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oh yeah this one!
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increasingly convinced that the only way to persuade people of anything is to just lead by example
*visibly* do your own thing and politely maintain boundaries
this is appealing to observers 1/3
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yeah! like w/ religion and cults, ppl often talk about how trauma was what helped them question and escape and while there is a lot of truth to that, i can say that discovering a better spiritual game was the biggest nail in the coffin for me
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I think the word fun may need some thought. People make choices all the time that result in life being a lot less fun. Sometimes those choices become a habit and they lose the ability to choose. Sometimes life takes that ability away too. It’s hard to change that path.
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searching for new games that might be more fun is generally not a very fun game
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mmm good point
although raises a question of how to perhaps make searching for new games more fun
has me thinking of this article "The Metagame is the Process of Discovering its Own Constraints", though I forget how relevant it actually is
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See original for context; this tweet generalizes to pretty much all of human life.
There's a related blog post called The Metagame is the Process of Discovering its Own Constraints, which seems to be gone, but maybe archived here? web.archive.org/web/2018122502
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